Theme:
Unleash your inner hero!

Once a year in the capital city of the Lower Silesia, 100 remarkable people meet to share the invaluable: their ideas
TEDxWroclaw is a local and an independent initiative during which the leading thinkers, activists, scientists, artists and remarkable representatives of various fields meet to share their passion and knowledge. TEDxWroclaw is an opportunity to meet the greatest visionaries, the most fascinating speakers and the most interesting figures who, during an 18-minute speech, inflame the public with inspiring speeches on their passions, revolutionary discoveries, private and/or extraordinary experiences.
TEDxWroclaw conference will take place on April 13th, 2013 in Kino Nowe Horyzonty. The main theme of the conference is: Unleash your inner hero. This international meeting with a diverse group of speakers will be held in English.
Speakers, participants, along with the organizers, in total 100 people will attend the conference. It will be accompanied by such events like: social actions, concerts, workshops, exhibitions. Each speech is documented and then (as video) published on social networking sites and TEDxWroclaw website.
This year, the TEDxWroclaw speakers are: Artur Zalwert – Polish illusionist and mentalist, dr. Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka – the most influential Lover Silesian woman and Karol Liver – a photographer with an unusual passion.
The international public of TEDxWroclaw are passionates, curious about the world in all its splendor, scientists, innovators, explorers, activists, visionaries, people with knowledge exceeding just one field, and the ones trying to understand the way the world changes.
What is characteristic about TEDxWroclaw conference is the distinguishing character of being non-profit and pro-social. Its organizers do not receive any financial or in-kind payment. Their rewards are extraordinary experiences and contacts, along with the feeling always accompanying all the participants – the feeling of unlimited possibilities.

Speakers

A Dublin-based studio photographer and socialmedia specialist, Karol Liver has unusual passion – he is a riddle genius! “Zest Riddle" designed by him in 2004 became an internet phenomenon with more than 2 mln people trying to solve it. His main field of artistic interest is correspondence between the person acting in front of the camera and the stage on which he has given them to perform. Currently he works as Chief Editor of prism Photo Magazine and Google+ Product Quality Team Lead at Google.
Reach Karol at:
web (riddle) http://zestriddle.ovh.org/
web (photography) http://www.karol-liver.com/
magazine http://prismphotomagazine.com/

It's a hight time to present this year's speakers:
As a visual thinking trainer, Klaudia Tolman from Warsaw, is messing around with 3 pieces every single day: piece of paper, piece of pencil and piece of mind. She believes it’s possible to draw everything and - what's more - sometimes drawing on the most basic level of ‘child drawing’, even if considered as a 'step back', can be a step forward in our personal development.
Klaudia favoriteTEDtalks:
Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders
http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.html
TED Playlist: The creative spark http://www.ted.com/playlists/11/the_creative_spark.html
Reach Klaudia at:
Web & blog: http://www.klaudiatolman.pl/
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/MyslenieWizualne

A member of the Geocaching Polska non-profit Association, Jan Raczyński from Warsaw worked for more than 15 years in several European and Middle Eastern countries as a sales person in IT Industry. He actively practices hiking and horseback riding. His main interest is the development and promotion of tourism as a way to promote the history and national heritage among young people. He perceives geocaching as a way to develop local communities.
Reach Jan Raczyński at:
Web http://www.geocaching.pl/

Social psychologist Jarosław Świątek is head editor of Polish Social Psychology Portal, editor of Polish Business Psychology Portal and author of book “Everybody lies. Don't get fooled!". As an expert of social influence, persuasion, deception, emotions and motivations he is a consultant for Polish media, including Telewizja Polska, Radio Eska ROCK, Polsat News and OnetBiznes.
Reach Jarosław at:
Web http://www.psychologia-spoleczna.pl/
Book http://gwp.pl/10148,wszyscy-klamia-nie-daj-sie-oszukac-.html

Norwegian-born Jewish actress, musician, director and playwright Bente Kahan saved one of the most beautiful buildings in Wrocław - The White Stork Synagogue. She has received numerous prestigious awards for her work in Poland, including the Wroclaw Mayor’s Award (2006), Ambassador of Wroclaw (2010) and the German-Polish Silesian Culture Award (2010).
Reach Bente at:
Web http://www.bentekahan.eu/
Foundation http://www.fbk.org.pl/

Born in Poland and raised in Germany, Maja Wozniak is a fan of finding explanations for the cause and impact of diverse cultural traditions, habits, behaviour and communication styles and underlying values. Because of her interests she had no hesitation to join WrOpenUp, non-commercial project promoting cultural and ethnic diversities by creative competition.
Reach Maja at:
web www.wropenup.pl

Young Lithuanian musicians from Garbanotas Bosistas always try to play sincerely, because for them music is a talk. The band formed in Vilnius in 2008 of five friends nourishing different musical tastes and trying to find their own sound between old and new voices of the rock, blues and rock‘n‘roll world. Šarūnas Joneikis – enchanting vocal, his brother Mantas Joneikis – guitar, Augustinas Čobotas – bass, Narimantas Besakirskas - drums, Gabrielė Tamutytė – soft voice between the lines. Every concert is an adventure for the band and for the audience aswell. The band played in many lithuanian festivals („Bliuzo naktys“, „Tamsta muzika“, „Play fest“ ect.), won the award of the best lithuanian rock band 2012 at alternative music awards "T.E.T.E". This winter released a minialbum “VENERA”, had two tours in Lithuania and Latvia.
Reach Garbanotas Bosistas at:
Web www.garbanotasbosistas.lt
Soundcloud www.soundcloud.com/garbanotasbosistas

The biggest passion of journalist, Rafał Motriuk is science and seeking truth through skepticism. He works as a science correspondent for the Polish Radio, communication coach, lecturer of journalism. He freelances for the BBC and TVP. He is the author of two books: "A Straight Road to Success" and "Autism: a Father's Diary".
Reach Rafał at:
Web http://www.en.intercomm.com.pl/
Blog http://autyzm-dziennik.blog.onet.pl/

Biography of Radek Miszczak demonstrates one of his greatest beliefs: we live in the times of unlimited possibilities. He is a music journalist, a free time DJ and a (co-)owner of couple of creative companies. He loves music of black origin, art of leadership, entrepreneurship and hosting remarkable events. Currently he hosts refreshed version of first Polish music blog dobry.numer.
Reach Radek at:
facebook www.fb.com/radek.miszczak
LI www.linkedin.com/in/radekmiszczak
e-mail radek@miszczak.pl
blog dobry.numer 2.0

Joao de Sousa

The music of João de Sousa is a contemporary mixture of musical heritages: portuguese fado and folklore with Polish creativity and unpredictability. Traditional and modern fado, jazz, flamenco, Portuguese folklore with African and Arab influences are all part of João de Sousa’s vision of Fado Polaco – the presentation of an original and modern way of approaching fado. His voice is known from projects and collaborations with Mikromusic, Smolik, Ariel Ramirez Tango Quartet and João ‘Rocks’.

Jasiek Mela

Jasiek Mela
The story of adventurer Jasiek Mela shows that the only limitations are in our heads. While he was learning how to live his new life after terrible accident he met famous polish explorer Marek Kaminski who invited him to an expedition to the North Pole. Since then he has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Russia, climbed El Capitan in California and has run the New York marathon. He established his own foundation called Poza Horyzonty (Beyond the Horizons) to help other people get prostheses and to give them the possibility to discover and realize their passions, and to fulfill their dreams.

Artur Magik

How to pull a rabbit out of a hat when you are the rabbit? Known as Artur Magik, ilusionist and mentalist Artur Zalwert from Kraków, everyday combines his three biggest passions (mentalism, magic and marketing) to create live changing possibilities for other people. His experience in helping the self-employed and small companies shows that marketing, branding and social media aren’t just a magic trick.

Iza Moczarna-Pasiek

Combining role of an artist and a women rights activist in her work Iza Moczarna-Pasiek questions stereotypes of femininity. She photographs, gives presentations and writes about the need for balance in representation of femininity in themainstream society. In her art the photography is a tool to create projects as well as to present feminine reality more accurately. She is author and co-author of Kalendarz Amazonek (BCS's Calendar) presenting women after mastectomy, Supercilious Venus where she photographed plus size models undressed for the session, Panna z Dzieckiem (Maiden with a child) showing Polish unmarried single mothers and Amaravati presenting life of buddhist nuns in a male-run monastery.

Wojtek Kębłowski

Wojciech Kębłowski an urbanist and a researcher from Wrocław dreams about change of paradigms that govern European urban areas. For this purpose, he investigates how South American urban policy innovations "travel" and "mutate" in Europe. Fascinated by cities Wojciech enjoys living and discovering Brussels where he is as a PhD candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles.

Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka

The most influential woman in Lower Silesia, Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka is a researcher, assistant professor and activist specialized in the public sector. She visited universities in Heidelberg, Freiburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Bochum, Vienna, Dublin, Amsterdam, Groningen, Leiden and is actively involved in public activities as president, member and expert in advisory teams, think- and do-tanks devoted to regional & local development.